Motions Committee Report Confirms Further Consideration of NFPA 55 and NFPA 52
Karen Hall, National Hydrogen Association
The Motions Committee Report on documents in the Fall 2008 Revision Cycle has been released. The Report identifies Certified Amending Motions for documents in the Fall 2008 Revision Cycle that may be presented at the 2009 Association Technical Meeting in Chicago, IL on June 8-11, 2009. These include NFPA 55 and NFPA 52.
The Report also identifies Fall 2008 Revision Cycle Consent Documents. The entire report can be accessed on the NFPA website at http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/
CodesStandards/NITMAM_MC_Report_F08.pdf.
This Report will be incorporated into a Final Motions Committee Report for the 2009 Association Technical Meeting, and this document will be made available by May 1, 2009. In addition to Consent Documents and Certified Amending Motions on documents in the Fall 2008 Revision Cycle, the Final Report will include Consent Documents and Certified Amending Motions on documents in the Annual 2009 Revision Cycle.
NFPA 55, Standard for the Storage, Use, and Handling of Compressed Gases and Cryogenic Fluids in Portable and Stationary Containers, Cylinders, and Tanks, with proposed modifications for the 2009 edition, was submitted for public comment and one NITMAM (Notice of Intent To Make A Motion) has been Certified by the NFPA Standards Council. The NITMAM is for the return of the Entire Report to the Committee. If, during the June 2009 meeting, the Association recommends that the Technical Committee Report be returned to the Technical Committee, the previously adopted version of NFPA 55 shall remain standing.
NFPA 52, Vehicular Fuel Systems Code, with proposed modifications for the 2009 edition, received eleven Certified Motions, involving Chapters 9 and 14. If, during the June 2009 meeting, the Association recommends that a portion of a Report be returned to the Technical Committee, any existing text to which the returned portion pertains shall remain standing.
At the June meeting, the NFPA membership can consider and act on these Certified Amending Motions as well as Follow-up Amending Motions. [Follow-up Amending Motions are motions that become necessary as a result of a previous successful Amending Motion. (See 4.6.2 through 4.6.9 of the NFPA Regulations Governing Committee Projects (RGCPs) for a summary of the available Amending Motions and who may make them. This can be accessed at http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/
CodesStandards/Directory/RegsGovCommProjects2008.pdf).] Any outstanding objection following action at an Association Technical Meeting (and any further Technical Committee consideration following successful Amending Motions, see RGCPs at 4.7) must be raised through an appeal to the Standards Council or the issue will be considered resolved.
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